IAM Identities

Let’s now learn more about the IAM identities, starting with IAM users.

IAM users

An IAM user is an identity we can use to provide long-term account access to an individual entity using credentials. Using the IAM user credentials, the principal entity can authenticate itself with AWS and log in to the account. However, by default, the IAM users cannot perform any function besides logging into the account. To authorize the user to perform the required actions, we attach the IAM policy to the IAM user.